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Could dark matter be a superfluid?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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A Boze Einstein Condensate Is a Super Fluid

Super fluid is a special state of matter that can flow without losing any energy. This happens for example here on earth if you cool helium a lot you get a boze einstein condensate which is super fluid. We also think we have seen super fluid sort of indirectly inside the large hajon collider when we smash big atoms together like lead nuclei and gold nuclei. There's a little bit of super fluidity very very briefly at the heart of that thing while it occurs.

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